I hate to say this as a fellow anxiety sufferer, but suck it up! I’m not sure what it is that distracts you from class, but you have to find a way to push it to the back of your mind and pay attention to the lectures. I am also in college and I tried online classes. they are good but the don’t compare to the face-to-face interaction of a regular classroom. I have nervous moments in class but they don’t really interfere with my courses because I come to class focused on the material being taught and not on other things. trust me, nobody is paying attention to you in the class, only you.

You’d need documentation from your current therapist, saying that being in an on-ground class is impossible for you for health reasons. And even then, what would likely happen is that you would not be switched into online classes right now; this term. Instead, you’d get a medical withdrawal for the term (which can mess up your financial aid, so talk to an advisor and someone in financial aid before you do this), and you’d enroll in online classes for next term.

This is assuming that your college offers online classes, and offers the classes you need online.

What I’d like you to do before you do anything is find a local therapist who takes your health insurance, and start seeing him regularly. This would be someone off-campus. If you feel you need to see someone more often than your campus counsellor can see you, then you’re probably right – so seek out someone off campus.

You should also meet with the folks in your campus’s office of disability services today if possible, and see what accommodations might be able to be made for you in your classes, due to your diagnosed disability. For example, ask them about these things: can you tape your lectures (so you’d sit through the lectures and tape them, but you’d take notes at home from the tapes, and not in class.) Can you take the quizzes outside of class, one-on-one with the professor or with a proctor? These accommodations aren’t huge (as a professor, I’d find them quite reasonable) and yet they could get you through this term, and possibly future terms.

See if you can make these types of accommodations in your current classes, to get through the term. Talk to your advisor, find out if your college offers online classes, and if so, if they offer enough for you to complete a degree. If they do not, think about transferring to a *reputable* online program. So skip all the for-profit, as seen on tv schools like U of Phoenix, Strayer, Walden, AIU, etc. Employers and schools do not respect them. Instead, focus on the online degrees offered by schools like Florida State, UMass Amherst, Northeastern, BU, Regis U, etc. Also look to see if the public unis in your home state offer online classes – many do.